{"id":58505,"date":"2023-02-06T03:55:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T03:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=58505"},"modified":"2025-02-22T12:49:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T12:49:49","slug":"lovecrafts-letters-in-spanish-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/02\/06\/lovecrafts-letters-in-spanish-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft&#8217;s letters in Spanish, for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Javier Calvo has translated Lovecraft&#8217;s letters into Spanish, and apparently this is the very first time there has been such a book-length translation. The new book is evidently a &#8216;selected letters&#8217;, focusing on Lovecraft&#8217;s labour and growth as a writer&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Edited by Javier Calvo, based on a corpus of more than twelve thousand pages, this first volume, &#8216;Writing Against Men&#8217;, focuses on Lovecraft&#8217;s literary career: his projects, goals, successes, and failures; his relationship with his literary circle; and the birth of the momentous mythology of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently this is the first of three planned volumes, something which seems almost certain given the strong interest in the man in the Spanish-speaking world. Said to be shipping in February 2023, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.es\/Escribir-contra-hombres-Cartas-Lovecraft\/dp\/8419550027\">listed on Amazon.es<\/a> under the title &#8220;Escribir contra los hombres. Cartas de H. P. Lovecraft, Vol. I&#8221;. The Amazon listing reveals that the first volume is a table-trembler at a hefty 544 pages. The price is 35 Euro, which converts to around $38.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/letters-spanish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/letters-spanish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"699\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58506\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also in Spain, the leftist newspaper <em>El Pais<\/em> ($ paywall) had a weekend article on <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/babelia\/2023-02-04\/cuaderno-de-ideas-el-germen-del-mal-por-h-p-lovecraft.html\"><em>The Commonplace Book<\/em> of H.P. Lovecraft<\/a>. I can&#8217;t get past the paywall, but perhaps there&#8217;s also a new translation of the <em>Commonplace Book<\/em> in Spain, occasioning the new article?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Javier Calvo has translated Lovecraft&#8217;s letters into Spanish, and apparently this is the very first time there has been such &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/02\/06\/lovecrafts-letters-in-spanish-for-the-first-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58505"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65654,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58505\/revisions\/65654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}